Not everyone was meant to live the family life; especially not Jack, but a day at the market changes everything. All of a sudden he's being protective instead of destructive. Could it be curiosity or is it somehow the grey eyed girl that smiles so easily? He'll have to figure it out fast or else he might lose his reason for stepping out of the shadows.

Twin girls with the power of the Phoenix running through their veins. Stronger than 10 Empaths combined. One good, one evil, destined to battle on their 18th birthday. This occurs every 1,000 years, and both have always died. With help of friends from the previous books, can they find a way to save the girls before their upcoming birthdays?

This issue contains new stories by Lisa Tuttle, Stephen Hargadon, Simon Avery, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Jeff Bowles, and David Hartley, an in-depth interview with V.H. Leslie, plus all the usual columns, art, book and film reviews.

Richard finds himself stuck inside of another man's body from which he wants to free himself and get back to his wife. He also wants to get away from the guilt and persecution of an innocent life having been taking by his new hands. However, the "other him" looks happy with the switch and an Observer is holding Richard's fate in his hands.

The Indie Collaboration presents its thirteenth anthology of short stories, freely donated by independent writing's most ghoulish ghosts and gremlins. In our third annual Halloween collection, we serve up another sacrificial platter of chilling tales to keep you up at night, so remember to keep a light on tonight and don't forget to check under the bed.

"I fear for us all as we stand on the threshold now..."
A collection of Malone's long awaited and much doubted to exist poetry. From the epic to the obscure, the experimental to the traditional...
"They’ll find you somewhere
Hidden perhaps in a ball of dust
Blowing through the desert night
An unidentified object
Species unknown
Or inside the vast ballroom
of a forgotten mansion..."

No one believed it when the world fell apart, not even Angelina. Years later, surviving alone in the harsh Australian outback, she's haunted by the past she worked so hard to bury in the new Dark Age. Can her former self accept what she has become?

The Antlered Queen leads raiders from Below to the surface Above on a mission for the demon-lord Maladanik to find the key to the vaults of ancient Alosia. Unknown to the Antlered Queen, the reputed home of the key is also the home to her half-siblings. When she finally encounters her family for the first time, will she slay them or seek redemption for her crimes?